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*Shanghai copper stocks fall 2,267 T, first drop in 2 months. LONDON, March 20- Copper prices climbed on Friday to a near three-week high after Chinese inventories fell for the first time in two months, a signal that demand in the top metals consumer is slowly recovering after a holiday. The consensus view from Asia was that if it was a gain of over 10,000 or 20,000...

SYDNEY, March 20- Copper eased on Friday after posting its strongest gain in six weeks the session before, with losses curbed by supply concerns as a blockade of the Grasberg mine in Indonesia entered its fifth day. "Copper may have got a little ahead of itself overnight and what we're seeing is a bit of a pullback," a trader said. Three-month copper on the London Metal...

SYDNEY, March 20- Copper eased on Friday after posting the strongest gain in six weeks the session before, with losses capped by supply concerns as a blockade of the Grasberg mine in Indonesia entered its fifth day. "Copper may have got a little ahead of itself overnight and what we're seeing is a bit of a pullback," a trader said. Three-month copper on the London Metal...

JAKARTA, March 20- A blockade by workers at Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesian mine extended into a fifth day on Friday, a union official said, with output still halted but maintenance workers allowed into the Grasberg site by protesters. A lengthy disruption to supplies from one of the world's biggest copper mines could support benchmark metal prices that...

JAKARTA, March 20- A blockade by workers at Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesian mine extended into a fifth day on Friday, a union official said, with output still halted but maintenance workers allowed into the Grasberg site by protestors. A lengthy disruption to supplies from one of the world's biggest copper mines could support benchmark metal prices that...

SINGAPORE, March 20- Copper steadied on Friday after rallying 3 percent the session before, with production stopped at one of the world's biggest copper mines as workers blocked access. *Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was little changed at $5,855 a tonne at 0119 GMT. *Production has been halted at Freeport-McMoRan Inc's copper mine in Indonesia...

NEW YORK— Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:. Freeport-McMoRan Inc., down 97 cents to $17.26. Transocean Ltd., down $1.09 to $14.16.

*Prices for new homes in China fell at record pace in Feb. LONDON, March 18- Copper hit a three-week low on Wednesday on poor prospects in top consumer China and ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting expected to lay the groundwork for an increase to U.S. interest rates. In China there was more evidence of economic weakness after prices for new homes fell at the fastest...

March 16- Credit Suisse Group Inc will pay $10 million in cash and provide $6.25 million worth of advisory work to Freeport-McMoRan Inc to settle allegations it contributed to the natural resources company having overpaid significantly for two oil and gas companies. The settlement was disclosed on Monday in a filing with the Delaware Chancery Court.

MELBOURNE, March 5- London copper was little changed on Thursday as markets digested China's latest outline for economic reform and looked ahead to a central bank meeting in Europe and key U.S. jobs data. China's top state planning agency pledged on Thursday to accelerate policies to promote cleaner and renewable sources of energy and tackle overcapacity in...

*China sees sluggish pick-up in demand after New Year hols. LONDON, March 3- Copper prices slipped on Tuesday from a seven-week peak hit in the previous session as excitement over a weekend interest rate cut in top consumer China dissipated, and as the dollar was seen gaining strength. This week could see China's growth forecast coming in at around 7 percent, and...

MELBOURNE, March 3- London copper slipped on Tuesday from a seven-week peak hit the session before as expectations of rising U.S. interest rates pushed up the dollar and flattened commodity prices. *The most-traded May copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange slipped 0.6 percent to 42,600 yuan a tonne. *Newmont Mining Corp's Indonesian copper export...

JAKARTA, Feb 16- Indonesia has dropped its demand that Freeport-McMoran Inc build a $1.5 billion copper smelter in Papua province, saying a regionally owned enterprise would take on the project instead, website Detik.com reported, quoting the mining minister. The ministry in December said Arizona- based Freeport, which runs the world's fifth-largest copper...

Not only is the Indonesian government steadily tightening its grip on what was previously a chaotically free-wheeling independent production sector, but Indonesia's producers themselves are considering suspending exports due to low prices. It's also a question that cuts to the heart of Indonesia's aggressive resource nationalism, revealing the...

MELBOURNE, Jan 28- London copper moved away from 5-1/ 2- year lows on Wednesday, propped up by a weaker dollar after a drop in U.S. capital goods orders sparked talk the Federal Reserve might push back its timeline for raising interest rates. Copper prices have been walloped by persistent signs of weakening growth in top user China as well as sickly European demand...

MELBOURNE, Jan 28- London copper climbed away from 5-1/ 2 year lows on Wednesday, propped up by a weaker dollar after worsening U.S. durable goods orders sparked concerns the Federal Reserve may push back its timeline for raising interest rates at a meeting later in the session. *Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange climbed by 0.7 percent to $5,458 a...

SINGAPORE, Jan 26- London copper futures fell for a third session running on Monday as the dollar gained against the euro after Greece's Syriza party promised to roll back austerity measures as it is set to win a snap election. *Syriza's Alexis Tsipras is on course to become prime minister of the first euro zone government openly opposed to austerity policies...